One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 31 August 2004

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Get Adam Curry's Daily Source Code with NetNewsWire and iTunes

Here's a simple script I put together that will get Adam Curry's latest Daily Source Code mp3 and load it into iTunes, all via NetNewWire [Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes]

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iMac G5: Goodbye Arm, Hello Slab! (31-Aug-2004; 2.2K) [TidBITS]

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A growing market of magazines that is tapping into an underserved market is also presenting an alternative image of beauty. [New York Times: Arts] 'In the pages of King, a bimonthly men's magazine for the rims, bling and sneakers set, one thing is prized more than a taut waistline and a pretty face, shapely legs or a perky bosom: a large behind.'

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The images found at the website for the Nasa Earth Observatory make attractive desktop backgrounds, and some can even be found in sizes as large as 3,600 by 3,600 pixels, large enough for even a 30-inch Cinema Display. Browse... [macosxhints]

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The new iMac G5, which begins shipping worldwide mid-September, features the high-performance G5 processor and a stunning new design that integrates the entire computer right into its 17- or 20-inch flat panel display. The iMac G5 packs a complete computer system into a mere two inches of depth — the world’s thinnest desktop computer, with a G5 processor running up to 1.8 GHz. [Aug 31] [Apple Hot News]

Starting at C$1749

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Canada's weather forecasters are confessing that their predictions for the summer season were so wretched that Canadians would have known roughly as much without any forecast at all.

"Never have we been so wrong for so long in so many parts of the country," said David Phillips, the senior climatologist at Environment Canada. [GAM-National] 'But when all was said and done, it was a stinker of a summer nearly everywhere: cool, wet and dull. In fact, it was the coolest summer since 1992, when Mount Pinatubo spewed ash into the atmosphere.

Winnipeg had the coldest summer on record. Crops froze in Saskatchewan. And Toronto chalked up about 125 fewer hours of summer sunshine than people have come to expect: just 700 compared to the normal 825.

Vancouver, Victoria and Yukon were some of the few parts of the country that were hot and dry.'

For some time I've been calling this 'the summer that wasn't'.

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Why Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has written a passionate diatribe against George Bush. [Guardian Unlimited] 'Jesus, he's not even American, he's Canadian, from a modest upbringing outside Ottawa.'

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Life: European scientists have found a planet circling a distant star that could be home to life. [Guardian Unlimited] 'But the planet that orbits mu Arae every 9.5 days lies at the threshold of the largest possible rocky planets. The discovery, across a distance of 50 light years, was possible only because of the accuracy of an instrument called Harps, a spectrograph on the European Southern Observatory's 3.6m telescope at La Silla in Chile.'

Fascinating, especially since Olivia, dad, and I were looking at an exhibit which explored this possibility just yesterday and they were doing it with this same technology.

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Canadian Press - HALIFAX (CP) - At least eight flights were grounded and hundreds of passengers inconvenienced after a man carrying a bag slipped through security at Halifax International Airport without being properly checked Monday. [Yahoo! News - World]

Surprising. Honestly the most rigorous boarding checks I've been through in the past couple of years (aside from the first flight days after 9-11) have been in Halifax.

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Canadian Press - HALIFAX (CP) - At least eight flights were grounded and hundreds of passengers inconvenienced after a man carrying a bag slipped through security at Halifax International Airport without being properly checked Monday. [Yahoo! News - World]

Surprising. Honestly the most rigorous boarding checks I've been through in the past couple of years (aside from the first flight days after 9-11) have been in Halifax.